(We MUST prevent Tim Roemer from becoming DNC chairman.)

by Chris Bowers, MyDD

Dave Johnson uncovers something extremely disturbing about Tim Roemer:

The MercatusCenter, for example, at GeorgeMasonUniversity describes itself aspromoting the

"use of market-based tools and analysis to discover workable solutions to pressing economic problems."

And just look at who is funding them, as well as the amounts! (… Carthage Foundation is a Richard Mellon Scaife…

As I wrote above, before this update, Tim Roemer is "a distinguished scholar at the MercatusCenter at GeorgeMasonUniversity." Roemer's bio at Mercatus also states:

"Roemer is a key spokesperson for the MercatusCenter's Capitol Hill Campus outreach and education program, which seeks to improve public policy outcomes by teaching economics and policy analysis to congressional staff."

Scaife is known in conservative circles as one of the "Four Sisters." Along with a handful of other uber-rich donors, his funding serves as the backbone to the "think tank" branch of the Republican Noise Machine. He has personally donated over $340 million to conservative causes. Adjusted for inflation, that total rises to over $620 million. And Tim Roemer is one of the people he is funding.

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